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Related: About this forumTrump skims nuclear safety funds to spruce up vanity gift plane from Qatar: Report - Rachel Maddow - MSNBC
Rachel Maddow shares New York Times reporting that Donald Trump has taken nearly a billion dollars from taxpayer money meant for modernizing the U.S. nuclear arsenal, and is instead directing some of those funds to refurbish the Air Force One style plane gifted to him from Qatar, which he intends to keep in his presidential library after potentially using it as his presidential plane once it is brought up to spec. - Aired on 07/28/2025.
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Trump skims nuclear safety funds to spruce up vanity gift plane from Qatar: Report - Rachel Maddow - MSNBC (Original Post)
Rhiannon12866
Yesterday
OP
Yikes! Great find! And you're right! Why else would Qatar want to get rid of it?!
Rhiannon12866
Yesterday
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NUCLEAR SAFETY FUNDS?! How the fuck is this not an immediate cause for removal?!
Karasu
Yesterday
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Justice matters.
(8,678 posts)1. Another illegal (un-constitutional) act...
Congress Shmugress (the repukes) will keep ignoring that too.
Marcuse
(8,571 posts)2. It's a bird. It's a plane. It's a flying white elephant.

Rhiannon12866
(239,699 posts)3. Yikes! Great find! And you're right! Why else would Qatar want to get rid of it?!
Meanwhile, American lives across several states could be jeopardized by leaking nukes...
Karasu
(1,705 posts)4. NUCLEAR SAFETY FUNDS?! How the fuck is this not an immediate cause for removal?!
Rhiannon12866
(239,699 posts)5. I don't get it, either! And how is this not breaking news??
One more conclusive sign that he could give a %$&! about the American people as long as he gets what he wants!